I don’t have any children, so I have the luxury of not
having daily reminders that the sands of time are sliding by me. When I do get
reminders, it can be very jarring. I can firmly remember the first time pop
culture made me feel old. It was over ten years ago and I was working at a
middle school. Walking down the hallway one day I overheard a conversation
about Wham. I’d smiled to myself listening to the girls talk about a group I
loved, until I heard a girl refer to them as an old group from the 80’s. Old
group, what! Wham was the bomb and very relevant. And then I realized that they
hadn’t had a hit in a couple decades. Ouch. Damn pop culture, reminding me of
my mortality.
I felt it again today. Innocently perusing the net, I
stumbled on an anniversary story. The movie Clueless
turned twenty this weekend. Yikes! Dionne and Cher can’t possibly be twenty
years older. Because if they are that means I’m 4…. Well, I’m certainly older
than 40. I loved Clueless back in the
day and will stop and watch a scene or two (or the whole movie) when I catch it
on tv. Knowing all of the crazy fashion and catch phrases are twenty definitely
makes me feel past my prime. Ouch again. I suppose I need to remind myself that
age is all in one’s head or even remind myself that aging is a good thing—the alternative
is not something I want to experience any time soon. Hmm, maybe I need to rent Clueless for old time’s sake. And who
knows, I might just have to mosey over to YouTube and catch a Wham video J
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